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Learning to Read with Letter Cards Some of my biggest challenges as a homeschooling mom have involved reading. My youngest child has had an especially difficult time learning to read, so much so that I had to find someone else who could help. That’s when I learned about “letter cards”. I must admit, I don’t know much about teaching reading. My oldest child just

VocabularyOne of the most important things parents can do is foster the love of reading in their children. Vocabulary plays an important part in learning to read as it teaches the meaning of words. Beginning readers cannot understand what they are reading without first knowing what most of the words mean. What parents can do at home: It’s never too early to begin talking

We have some exciting things in the future of SmartTutor.com including some free items. I know these days we all need to cut costs (especially because gas is so expensive) so Smart Tutor wants to help out with that. Soon… we will be offering some free educational activities that will include many of our characters like you see here. If you don’t want to

Hi Everyone… here are our new business cards… just wanted to share these with everyone. Hopefully we will meet you one day and we’ll be able to hand you a physical copy. In the meantime we hope that your children are enjoying Smart Tutor.

Hello All… I wanted to share with you all about how lucky most of us are that we live in a large town/city. My fiance and I both lived in Colorado (that’s where we met)… but he lived in the smallest town I think I’ve ever been to. The first time I visited the town they didn’t even have one stoplight… and that was

I often get inspired to draw and design when I see good art. When the time comes to create new characters for our lessons at Learning Today I find that doing a web search and viewing other artist’s styles is very helpful. I have been using Flash as a drawing tool for more than 7 years to create cartoons, graphics, and websites. Throughout my